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Adoptions fall by 18.5 pct in 2016 as recent decline continues
Societythe information was made available, children born out of wedlock make up the majority of those who were put up for adoption. Adoptees in this category fell by 9.1 percent year-on-year. Children born within a married unit who were subsequently put up for adoption declined by 53.8 percent in 2016
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A year of risk and reward for Greece
Agora, with growth expected to pick up in 2018 as confidence returns, boosting investment and consumption... be an exit from the programme, which they expect to be followed up by a fourth bailout. Their doubts... been like a prisoner in solitary confinement, told when to wake up, what to eat, how to exercise
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
Name issue stirs up emotions As Skopje and Athens work on negotiations, domestic politicians take... view to SYRIZA on the matter. Mitsotakis’s speech, though, was mostly focussed on shoring up his own.... Eurosystem funding up by 786 mln in December Rise driven mainly by an increase in Emergency
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Macedonia and other Greek words
Agorabreak-up. Also, descendants of many Greek refugees who were expelled in the most barbarous..., the local variety of nationalists have talked up the threat from a country with a fifth... in Syntagma Square on Sunday to speak of a plan to carve up the Balkans and to accuse the government of being
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Finance Ministry waits for new property values as talk of bad bank gathers pace
EconomyProgrammerecent annual general meeting. The proposal for creating a financial institution that can sweep up bad... requirement needed to set up such an organisation. Greece’s lenders have not been willing so far to direct... a blueprint on the set-up of national asset management companies (AMCs). The proposals show member
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Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
EconomyFeaturesbacks up its accusations with figures which claim to show that the government has hired 21,000... their numbers have been creeping up steadily. The total number was up to 75,810 at the end of 2017 from a low... historically been looser than those applied to the staffing of permanent roles. Up until 2009, applicants
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Coalition eyes electoral change, polls show wide lead for New Democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe “next few weeks” a draft law aimed at breaking up the vast Athens “B” voting district into smaller... been reluctant to give up their strong power base. PASOK and To Potami suggested the change in 2016..., there appears to be greater consensus now on breaking up Athens “B” but it remains to be seen
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Take your seats
Agora, announced a rent subsidy scheme for up to 300,000 families, the reduction of the annual property tax (ENFIA) by up to 30 percent over two years, a decrease in social security contributions for the self... by Tsipras was far from the handout bonanza that some of his critics had warned about in the build-up
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Greece's golden visa scheme brings revenues, but risks as well
EconomyFeaturesmake up almost half of the recipients, with Russian and Turkish nationals making up the next largest... Commissioner Vera Jourova recently told Die Welt that she would be calling on all member states to speed up... in the first five months of 2018 were up by 49 percent compared the same period last year
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
in beating targets (Athens expects that this year’s primary surplus could end up above 4 percent of GDP...) earlier this month that the government would introduce a rent subsidy scheme for up to 300,000... were the reduction of the basic rate of income tax for those will annual incomes up to 10,000 euros
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